Ulrich of Liechtenstein

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Ulrich von Liechtenstein ( Codex Manesse , 14th century).
Ulrich is shown here as a tournament knight adorned with ornaments in his 'disguise' as Lady Venus (with Cupid's arrow and torch). In this incognito he had undertaken a great literary tournament tour in 1227 according to the portrayal in his biography as a minnitter.
Bust of the sculptor Alfred Schlosser in the Graz Castle

Ulrich von Liechtenstein (also: Lichtenstein , * around 1200; † January 26, 1275 ) was a minstrel and poet of the Middle Ages who wrote in Middle High German .

Life

Ulrich von Liechtenstein belonged to a wealthy and influential ministerial family in Styria , which named itself after its headquarters ( 47 ° 10 ′ 0.64 ″  N , 14 ° 40 ′ 32.16 ″  E ), Liechtenstein, southeast of Judenburg , today a ruin , but was not tribal related to the Austrian Liechtensteiners .

Ulrich held several important political offices: in the years 1244/1245 he was Truchsess of Styria, from 1267 to 1272 he was marshal ; in 1272 also district judge. From the years 1227 to 1274 95 documents have been preserved in which his name is mentioned; He issued eight of these certificates himself.

The Frauenburg (today the castle ruins) is said to have been his favorite seat. It is located above the village of Frauenburg in the municipality of Unzmarkt-Frauenburg in the Murtal in western Upper Styria . He is said to have been buried in the Frauenburg.

genealogy

Ulrich's ancestors and descendants:

Aribo II. († 1102)
  • Hartnid von der Traisen, high freelancer
    • Hartwig von Reidling († 1136, urk. To 1147?), ∞ NNw, daughter of Dietmar von Dornberg and Lungau (1100–1130)
      • Dietmar I. (1126–1140 von Reidling, 1140–1145 from Liechtenstein), before 1140 construction of the Liechtenstein festivities near Judenburg (associated with relegation to princely ministry)
        • Dietmar II.
          • Dietmar III. (1164–1218), ∞ Kunegunde (1140–1217)
            • Ulrich (I. von Liechtenstein, also von Frauenburg, urk. 1227–1274), minstrel, builder of the Frauenburg, ∞ Perchta von Weißenstein
              • Ulrich II. (1250–1285), ∞ Kunigunde von Goldegg
              • Otto II. (1252–1311), 1. ∞ Agnes von Wildon , 2. ∞ Diemut von Liechtenstein-Nikolsburg († after 1265), 3. ∞ Adelheid von Pottendorf
              • Diemut (1250), ∞ Wulfing von Trennstein
              • Perchta (1260), ∞ Herrand von Wildon , poet
            • Otto, pastor of Graz
            • Dietmar IV. Von Offenburg, ∞ Gertrud von Wildon
            • Hedwig, ∞ Dietmar von Steyr
            • NNw, ∞ Heinrich von Wasserburg, Austrian treasurer

Works

Ulrich's miniature poetry has been included in the large collection of the Codex Manesse . Before that, Ulrich himself had collected his 58 doene in a minstrel biography, the so-called women's service . In it he tells his life in first person as the story of a knight wooing love . The degree of stylization of this life story according to literary models is difficult to estimate. In any case, the different self- conception of the individual in the Middle Ages forbids the use of modern concepts of 'fiction' or 'autobiography' to cover women's service . If here a sometimes comical light falls on advertising (drastic humiliation of the advertising as a sign of unconditional devotion), then Ulrich represents a serious, instructive intention in his women's book .

Ulrich's poetry is conventional, artistic and dependent on the high minstrelsong around 1200, especially on Walther von der Vogelweide . In contrast, the minine-theoretical and narrative writings are characterized by advanced narrative techniques (first- person narration in women's service , framed dialogue in women's books ), even if Ulrich cannot be counted among the great narrators of the German Middle Ages.

Honors

Name of Ulrich-Lichtenstein-Gasse (at the southern end of Conrad-von-Hötzendorf-Straße ) in Graz .

literature

Text output

Secondary literature

  • Sandra Linden, Christopher Young (Ed.): Ulrich von Lichtenstein. Life - time - work - research. Berlin / New York, De Gruyter 2010.
  • Christiane Ackermann: In the field of tension between the self and the body. Subjectivity in Wolframs von Eschenbach's 'Parziva' and Ulrich von Liechtenstein's 'Frauendienst'. Cologne et al., Böhlau 2009 (= Ordo 12).
  • Franz Viktor Spechtler, Barbara Maier (Ed.): I - Ulrich von Liechtenstein. Literature and Politics in the Middle Ages. Files of the Friesach Academy “City and Culture in the Middle Ages” 1996. Wieser, Klagenfurt 1999, ISBN 3-85129-266-9 . (Series of publications by the Friesach Academy 5).
  • Heinz Gerstinger : 'Frau Venus rides ... - The fantastic story of Ulrich von Lichtenstein. 1995.
  • Judith Klinger: Me: body: writing. Potentials and limits of communication in Ulrichs von Liechtenstein 'Frauendienst'. In: Conversations - Messenger - Letters. Body memory and writing memory in the Middle Ages. Edited by Horst Wenzel. Munich 1997, pp. 106-126.
  • Jan-Dirk Müller: Ulrich von Liechtenstein. In: Author's Lexicon. Volume 9. 1995, columns 1274-1282.
  • Franz Viktor Spechtler:  Liechtenstein, Ulrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 522 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hermann Reichert: role models for Ulrichs von Lichtenstein Friesacher tournament. In: Carinthia. I, 173, 1983, pp. 171-192.
  • Michael Pieper: The functions of commentary in Ulrichs von Liechtenstein's 'women's service'. (= Göppingen works on German studies; Volume 351), Lauterburg 1982, ISBN 3-87452-564-3 .
  • Hermann Reichert: Ulrichs von Lichtenstein's rose seal. In: Yearbook of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria 46/47, 1980/1981, pp. 425–440 and attached pictures.
  • Klaus M. Schmidt (arrangement): Glossaries of terms and indices on Ulrich von Lichtenstein. (= Indices [indices] on German literature; 14/15), Munich 1980, ISBN 3-601-00409-7 .
  • Ursula Peters : Women's Service. Studies on Ulrich von Lichtenstein and the reality content of the love poetry. (= Göppingen works on German studies; Volume 46), Göppingen 1971.
  • Bernd Thum : Ulrich von Lichtenstein. Court ethics and social reality. Heidelberg 1968.
  • Anton Schönbach:  Liechtenstein, Ulrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 620-623.
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Liechtenstein, Ulrich von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 15th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1866, p. 135 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ulrich von Liechtenstein in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Web links

Commons : Ulrich von Liechtenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Ulrich von Liechtenstein  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leopold Beckh-Widmanstetter: Ulrich's von Liechtenstein, the minnesinger, tomb on the Frauenburg . Graz 1871 ( e-copy ).
  2. ↑ Information after the afterword in Lit. Frauendienst , Spechtler, Wieser, Klagenfurt 2001 ( on the publisher's website , old website, web.archive.org )
  3. ↑ In the history of the Slovenian language and literature , a rhyme report from Frauendienst is often quoted in which he quotes Slovenian words by Duke Bernhard von Spanheim . He had greeted him on his passage through Carinthia in Thörl-Maglern / Vrata Megvarje on May 1, 1227 in Slovenian with the following words: "The prince and the journeymen sin / I am welcome sin. / Ir gruoz something against me alsus: / "buge waz primi, gralva Venus!" (The prince and his entourage welcomed me. Their greeting to me was like this: "Greetings from God, royal Venus). Ulrich had been disguised as Venus. See: Reginald Vospernik, Pavle Zablatnik, Erik Prunč, Florjan Lipuš: The Slovenian word in Carinthia = Slovenska beseda na Koroškem, literature and poetry from the beginning to the present = Pismenstvo in slovstvo od začetkov do danes. ÖBV, Vienna 1985, pp. 22-23. ISBN 3-215-04304-1
personal data
SURNAME Ulrich of Liechtenstein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulrich von Lichtenstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Middle High German poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 1200
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1275